LAYOUTS
SABDEN YARD
A Shunting Yard Layout in ‘G’ Scale, with DCC Control
Owned by Mike Brown (‘G’ Scale Society)
What started life as a test and demonstration track for Digital Control, has, with a few scenic additions, developed into a Shunting Yard layout.
SABDEN YARD is a collecting point for the narrow-gauge lines from local industries. This is where the goods get
trans-shipped from the narrow-gauge railways, to the main line. Most shunting work is carried out by the ‘Big Red Diesel’, but other locomotives often visit the Yard.
trans-
8 ft.
Optional 2ft. 8in extension, with display board in front
2 ft.
The size of the layout, 8ft. X 2ft., quite small for a G-Scale layout. It can be operated from both back and front, although back is preferred. The layout is self-supporting and requires two operators.
SABDEN YARD started life as a test and demonstration track for Digital Control; if effect, to ‘play’ with digital decoders. With a few scenic additions it has developed into a Shunting Yard. It is operated with locomotives fitted with decoders of different types, such as LGB, MTS, ESU, LokSound, and Lenz, all with a MTS controller. However, with the operation of a switch, it can also use conventional DC control.
The major visited “Sabden Yard” when the layout was shown at the
Weston-super-Mare model railway exhibition in 2010.
Weston-
The photos show the layout as exhibited at the Weston-super-Mare exhibition in 2010 (with the exception of the photo above-left showing the ‘blue’ diesel). Photos have been edited to remove exhibition-hall background, replacing it with scenic colour.